I’d like to be a Pepper, NOT a Root Beer

Rule number one when waiters and waitresses are put through service school is, when someone asks if you have Dr. Pepper, don’t offer them Root Beer instead. JUST SAY NO. Root Beer is not and never will be Dr. Pepper! There is no substitute. Aside from the fact that they taste nothing alike, Root Beer does not contain the devil’s drug, caffeine!!! If I ask for a Dr. Pepper, that means I absolutely want the devil’s drug running through my system.

Oh, and before you ask, dear food service person, a Dr Pepper is NOT the same thing as a Cherry Coke, so stop trying to push that substitution on me as well…

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One Response to “I’d like to be a Pepper, NOT a Root Beer”

  • Dan Coogan Says:
    February 12th, 2010 at 12:04 am

    Some people really like Dr. Pepper (my sister in-law being one of them), I’m not a fan… tastes like carbonated prune juice to me.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_beer
    “Although most mainstream brands are caffeine-free (including A&W Root Beer, Dad’s Root Beer, and Mug Root Beer), at least one brand of root beer, Barq’s, contains caffeine, although Barq’s does produce a caffeine-free variety sold in a number of U.S. markets across numerous states, wherever demand is sufficient. Additionally, Bawls highly caffeinated beverages offers “G33K B33R” caffeinated root beer.”

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